Current Scope and sequence

Organization

Learning expectations:

• time management—including using time effectively in class, keeping to deadlines
• self-management—including personal goal setting, organization of learning materials

Key questions:
What organizational tools do I have?
What aspects of my organization do I need to develop?
How can I best organize myself?

Tools:

Collaboration

Learning expectations:

• working in groups—including delegating and taking responsibility, adapting to roles, resolving group conflicts, demonstrating teamwork
• accepting others—including analysing others' ideas, respecting others' points of view, using ideas critically
• personal challenges—including respecting cultural differences, negotiating goals and limitations with peers and with teachers

Key questions:
How do I work with others?
What successes have I had when I have worked with others?
How can I work with others; how can they work with me?

Tools:

Communication

Learning expectations:

• literacy—including reading strategies, using and interpreting a range of content-specific terminology
• being informed—including the use of a variety of media
• informing others—including presentation skills using a variety of media

Key questions:
What communication tools do I use?
Which ways of communicating do I need to improve on?
How can I better communicate my understanding?

Tools:

Information literacy

Learning expectations:

• accessing information—including researching from a variety of sources using a range of technologies, identifying primary and secondary sources
• selecting and organizing information—including identifying points of view, bias and weaknesses, using primary and secondary sources, making connections between a variety of resources
• referencing—including the use of citing, footnotes and referencing of sources, respecting the concept of intellectual property rights

Key questions:
How can I access information?
How do I know if the information is reliable?
What will I do with this information?

Tools:

Reflection

Learning expectations:

• self-awareness—including seeking out positive criticism, reflecting on areas of perceived limitation
• self-evaluation—including the keeping of learning journals and portfolios, reflecting at different stages in the learning process

Key questions:
How do I reflect?
How have my reflections helped me learn?
What other reflection tools and resources can help me?

Tools:

Thinking

Learning expectations:

• generating ideas—including the use of brainstorming
• planning—including storyboarding and outlining a plan
• inquiring—including questioning and challenging information and arguments, developing questions, using the inquiry cycle
• applying knowledge and concepts—including logical progression of arguments
• identifying problems—including deductive reasoning, evaluating solutions to problems
• creating novel solutions—including the combination of critical and creative strategies, considering a problem from multiple perspectives

Key questions:
How do I think?
What tools can help me think in different ways?
What planning tools do I have?

Tools:

Transfer

Learning expectations:

• making connections—including using knowledge, understanding and skills across subjects to create products or solutions, applying skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations
• inquiring in different contexts—including changing the context of an inquiry to gain various perspectives.

Key questions:
What are the "big ideas" of each of the different subjects?
Do the big ideas of the subjects overlap?
How can I use my knowledge, understanding and skills across subjects?

Tools: